No, the real difference is we've finally collectively realised that no matter what we're fucked so from now on we're going by what color we feel like decorating with for 4 years.
This is true but the barely there air movement noise my Noctua 120mm's make when running for example is so slight that the high pitched squeel of a powered up electronic device is noisier.
Ok, so that happens and two kids are charged (as adults, naturally) with mutual rape: each one having statutorily raped the other.
Ignoring the contradiction in the claim of mutual-rape, how exactly does the logic behind charging them as adults for something that's only a crime because they aren't adults work? Charging them as adults claims that they are mature and developed enough to understand the full ramifications of their actions... a claim which contradicts the original act being a crime to begin with.
If by orbital kinetic kill vehicles you mean something like a satellite that drops a tungsten rod on a target from orbit the reason we don't use them is because even china can blast satellites out of the sky.
"People on the lower end of the average IQ tend to display poorer overall decision-making skills when it comes to their health..."
I can't even come up with a good joke for this, they've basically just put all that time and money into finding out that stupid people are more likely to make stupid choices.
I realise that the plural of Anecdote is not Data but I would think that at some point this connection would be obvious enough in day to day life that a study would be unnecessary.
Considering it's for blunt transfer of light I think the fiber version might be cheaper too since you could basically make it out of the cheapest still-transmitting rejected cables.
I'm not sure how much the cheapest functional cable for this is though, or how flexible, although the real trick would be getting the light into the fiber-optics to begin with. Some kind of half-pipe and tube-collector design both capable of just being hosed down by a home user is obviously the best solution but probably also expensive or impossible.
I recall reading a while back about a company that replaced some of their big fluorescent tubes with fiber-optic arrays that piped in sunlight, this seems like a fancier version of that.
In fantasy land people think that the reaction to biometric security and encryption is somebody giving up or resorting to hollywood methods of getting around it.
In reality the reaction is to just start killing or maiming people until you cooperate.
ArmA is no more realistic than Modern Warfare 2. The only difference is that where MW2 went for hollywood-reality through "cinematic" special effects ArmA went for armchair-reality through deliberate obfuscation.
It's not any more realistic to make the player's avatar an incompetent cripple with no sense of proprioception and no representation of things you'd obviously know in reality than it is to tell them exactly how many more times they can get shot before dying and how many bullets are left in the current magazine.
The only difference is that a lot of people assume that because one of them is more obfuscated than the other it must therefore be closer to reality.
You forgot the biggest one of all: Resolution and Field of View.
PC games used to have rich areas with all sorts of movement. Even the notoriously boxy maps in Half-Life 1 still had a lot going for them. Consolized games are restricted to a field of view easily half of a PC and their highest resolution is still 200 lines less than what PC's have been using for a decade.
So you get nauseating games designed for people playing from across the room in maps that as pretty as they may be nowadays are still often little more than invisible-walled hallways, because an FoV of ~50 leaves the average gamer basically tunnelblind compared to the PC standard of 90.
Considering that even 1080P HD is 200 lines less than the lower of the old CRT PC gaming resolutions (1600x1200 up to 2043x1536) I would say yes, the LCD was a step backwards in every area except carrying-convenience.
Lucky you. 3rd-5th grade I spent memorizing multiplication tables and taking ~5 minute timed tests with dozens of problems on them, far too many to actually calculate.
6th-8th grade were spent memorizing algebra formulas one at a time and then doing test after test (thankfully no longer timed) solving equations using only specific formulas, which we had to memorize.
high school was the same, but also without any real application and a massive emphasis on memorizing and regurgitating specific formulas on an assembly line of problems.
The problem with math, aside from trying to shove it at people not ready for it yet, is that it's nothing but a horrifically boring and mentally painfull assembly line for memorization skills. You aren't required to think, you're required to have basic counting skills and the ability to memorize a given formula and repeat it 50-100 times per assignment for that class.
If someone understands the underlying concepts then doing the same exact thing 9 times won't do anything but bore them, and if they don't get it then doing it the next 90 times will just frustrate them further.
Lets not lose track of reality here. Google likely doesnt give a shit about whether china is free or not any more than the rest of us do, they're really trying to leverage business success against an incredibly massive weight of public opinion and a slightly less massive though largely unseen morass of law and regulations.
In other news math may not lie but people still can, all the honesty and good statistics in the world doesnt help end-user stupidity, and there are statistically two popes per square kilometer in the vatican.
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http://boingboing.net/2005/11/09/sonys-eula-is-worse-.html
Yeah because it's not like EULAs are habitually some of the most absurd overreaching screw-your-rights documents ever made...
You're misunderstanding that phrase. Whether something ran crysis was a potshot at how badly crysis was coded, not how advanced it was.
They don't have left turns in Jersey?
No, the real difference is we've finally collectively realised that no matter what we're fucked so from now on we're going by what color we feel like decorating with for 4 years.
This is true but the barely there air movement noise my Noctua 120mm's make when running for example is so slight that the high pitched squeel of a powered up electronic device is noisier.
Ok, so that happens and two kids are charged (as adults, naturally) with mutual rape: each one having statutorily raped the other.
Ignoring the contradiction in the claim of mutual-rape, how exactly does the logic behind charging them as adults for something that's only a crime because they aren't adults work? Charging them as adults claims that they are mature and developed enough to understand the full ramifications of their actions... a claim which contradicts the original act being a crime to begin with.
If by orbital kinetic kill vehicles you mean something like a satellite that drops a tungsten rod on a target from orbit the reason we don't use them is because even china can blast satellites out of the sky.
"People on the lower end of the average IQ tend to display poorer overall decision-making skills when it comes to their health..."
I can't even come up with a good joke for this, they've basically just put all that time and money into finding out that stupid people are more likely to make stupid choices.
I realise that the plural of Anecdote is not Data but I would think that at some point this connection would be obvious enough in day to day life that a study would be unnecessary.
Considering it's for blunt transfer of light I think the fiber version might be cheaper too since you could basically make it out of the cheapest still-transmitting rejected cables.
I'm not sure how much the cheapest functional cable for this is though, or how flexible, although the real trick would be getting the light into the fiber-optics to begin with. Some kind of half-pipe and tube-collector design both capable of just being hosed down by a home user is obviously the best solution but probably also expensive or impossible.
I recall reading a while back about a company that replaced some of their big fluorescent tubes with fiber-optic arrays that piped in sunlight, this seems like a fancier version of that.
Well played, sir.
Mod parent up.
In fantasy land people think that the reaction to biometric security and encryption is somebody giving up or resorting to hollywood methods of getting around it.
In reality the reaction is to just start killing or maiming people until you cooperate.
While I'm sure a woman could do so just as well, if not better, I'm also fairly sure that the fuck it.
Just fuck it. I can't make a detached-finger-in-vagina joke about a KNIFE company with a straight face.
ArmA is no more realistic than Modern Warfare 2. The only difference is that where MW2 went for hollywood-reality through "cinematic" special effects ArmA went for armchair-reality through deliberate obfuscation.
It's not any more realistic to make the player's avatar an incompetent cripple with no sense of proprioception and no representation of things you'd obviously know in reality than it is to tell them exactly how many more times they can get shot before dying and how many bullets are left in the current magazine.
The only difference is that a lot of people assume that because one of them is more obfuscated than the other it must therefore be closer to reality.
Asserting so doesn't make it so.
You forgot the biggest one of all: Resolution and Field of View.
PC games used to have rich areas with all sorts of movement. Even the notoriously boxy maps in Half-Life 1 still had a lot going for them. Consolized games are restricted to a field of view easily half of a PC and their highest resolution is still 200 lines less than what PC's have been using for a decade.
So you get nauseating games designed for people playing from across the room in maps that as pretty as they may be nowadays are still often little more than invisible-walled hallways, because an FoV of ~50 leaves the average gamer basically tunnelblind compared to the PC standard of 90.
Funny I keep reading about how HIGH PC sales are.
Considering that even 1080P HD is 200 lines less than the lower of the old CRT PC gaming resolutions (1600x1200 up to 2043x1536) I would say yes, the LCD was a step backwards in every area except carrying-convenience.
Had me going until I read the account name. Good one BadAnalogyGuy.
Lucky you. 3rd-5th grade I spent memorizing multiplication tables and taking ~5 minute timed tests with dozens of problems on them, far too many to actually calculate.
6th-8th grade were spent memorizing algebra formulas one at a time and then doing test after test (thankfully no longer timed) solving equations using only specific formulas, which we had to memorize.
high school was the same, but also without any real application and a massive emphasis on memorizing and regurgitating specific formulas on an assembly line of problems.
The problem with math, aside from trying to shove it at people not ready for it yet, is that it's nothing but a horrifically boring and mentally painfull assembly line for memorization skills. You aren't required to think, you're required to have basic counting skills and the ability to memorize a given formula and repeat it 50-100 times per assignment for that class.
If someone understands the underlying concepts then doing the same exact thing 9 times won't do anything but bore them, and if they don't get it then doing it the next 90 times will just frustrate them further.
Lets not lose track of reality here. Google likely doesnt give a shit about whether china is free or not any more than the rest of us do, they're really trying to leverage business success against an incredibly massive weight of public opinion and a slightly less massive though largely unseen morass of law and regulations.
So your saying if you were to measure the popes and antipopes by weight there is just barely not enough antipope-tons to cause a significant reaction?
Someone needs to find a way to throw Avignon into this.
In other news math may not lie but people still can, all the honesty and good statistics in the world doesnt help end-user stupidity, and there are statistically two popes per square kilometer in the vatican.
Find a torrent that DOESNT have about a 50/50 to 60/40 split of "VIRUS!!111" and "AWESOME!!11" posts.